THURSDAY
MARCH 6
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 9:30 p.m. ET

In tonight’s new episode, the gang’s all here – but they’re splitting up and regrouping, in an effort to see if new chemistry can erupt, and result in new approaches and ideas. It’s a sometimes messy proposition, and sometimes, the mess is literal.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Ever since the unexpected reveal that Ray Romano’s Hank suffers from the same affliction (Asperger syndrome) as Max (Max Burkholder), Parenthood has given Romano lots of increasingly delicate and challenging things to do – and he’s done them all beautifully.  The way he relates to Max, especially, has a new tenderness now, and it’s a rare, lovely plot thread to watch and follow.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Andy Daly of Eastbound & Down stars in this strange new Comedy Central series, playing a George Plimpton-type critic named Forrest MacNeil whose mission is to review “life.” Viewers send in suggestions, and MacNeil experiences what they suggest, then provides reviews. The opening experiment, for example, is “Stealing,” which Forrest dives into with a series of escalating crimes. At the end, he gives “Stealing” two stars – which is about what I’d give the premiere of Review. It’s a clever idea for a series, but instead of playing out anything for real, everything is written and staged, and not as humorously as it could or should be. “Addiction” and “Senior Prom” are the other segments on tonight’s opener, and “Prom” is the best of the three.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Season 4 of Portlandia continues, and this week it delves into an area that sounds like home turf for Jimmy Fallon: Hip Hop History. Except they’re not singing, they’re talking. Or, if you prefer, they’re not rapping. They’re… rapping.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:35 p.m. ET

This Sunday, Oprah Winfrey features a double dose of shows featuring Lindsay Lohan, as part of what appears to be a full-scale reputation reclamation project. Here’s another part: She appears tonight on The Tonight Show, and Jimmy Fallon is, to her, a very friendly media stop. Not only was she one of the people who showed up on his opening night to slap a $100 bill on his desk, but way, way back in 2004, the first time she hosted Saturday Night Live, he was one of the cast members – and appeared with her in a very funny Harry Potter sketch, in which she played a notably buxom Hermione. So Lohan and Fallon have known each other for 10 years now, which ought to be reflected in whatever they do together this evening.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.